Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
...dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send a suicide telegram? Can you imagine getting a thing like that? You have...
...roared off seconds ahead of them in a sports car with her mother. Khanh ordered three battalions of loyal troops to move on the capital, while Ky dispatched a loudspeaker plane, which droned overhead, pleading, "Brother must not fight against brother." Next morning the rebels fled before a volley of three rifle shots that whizzed harmlessly overhead; not a drop of blood was spilled...
...scrappy Gay slowly pulled away until he had a commanding 12-7 lead. Morris, starting to concentrate on power strokes, fought back to 12-11. Gay won the next point on a corner drop, but his opponent could not be stopped now. A blazing crosscourt backhand and a volley down the line made the score 13-13. Five straight points by Morris then gave him the game...
...manned bomber to follow the technologically aging B-52s and B-58s. And President Johnson again postponed a decision on whether to produce an anti-ballistic missile system, the much discussed Nike-X, which employs the high-speed Sprint missile and is designed to intercept even a saturation volley of incoming ICBMs. Engineering has progressed to the point where a final test series on the system is planned for this summer, after which the decision probably will hinge on whether Johnson feels Nike-X would be worth its cost, estimated at $20 billion...